, 1887-09-23
TOW A
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

row morning.
Two DRINKS were tried BY Judge Lee
yesterday. One paid and his mate was
returned to the cooler. ia
Members of the Cheyenne gun club
will indulge in apractice shoot at the fair
grounds this afternoon.
Two large herds OF Oregon horses were
driven through the city yesterday enroute
to more eastern markets.
The fifth annual convention OF the W.
G. 7. u, for Wyoming, will be held at
Laramie on the 28th inst.
A bucking broncho and a lively run
away were the leading attractions on Bent
street yesterday afternoon.
George Taylor, the curiosity man, is
also a machinist in a small way He is
now working on a model for a patent gas
engine.
A vagrant named Chas. Franklin, who
was arrested by a policeman last night,
had a villanous looking sand bag as a
weapon.
The Cheyenne knights of Pythias re-
turned from attendance upon the recent
grand lodge meeting at Rawlins yesterday
morning.
Jehu j. Chadwick has quit claimed 16O
acres of land in section %, township l6,
range SO. to John M. Chadwick; consid-
Grafton, $l,400.
All passenger trains were from thirty
minutes to two and a half hours late last
evening. There were two sections of the
west bound train.
The emancipation day celebration at Y.
M. @. A. hall was a grand success. The
attendance was large and the occasion a
very pleasant one.
The case of the city of Cheyenne VS..
Margaret Henne, appealed from Judge
Lees court, was docketed by the clerk of
the district court yesterday.
A music dealer who has travelled ex-
tensively asserts that there are more
pianos, organs, etc., in Cheyenne than in
any city of its size in the United States.
A drunken man frightened the crowd
assembled in a Ferguson street gambling
house yesterday by carelessly discharging
a six shooter. He was promptly ar
rested.
Weather permitting, the depot tower
will be completed within four weeks.
There still remains about twelve feet of
stone work and the wooden portion to be
finished.
Herbert Kingman, of Lusk, mention
of whose marriage is made in another
column. is the handsome young man who
became SO popular here while attending
the Mccoy trial.
The catalogue for the county library is
in the hands of the printer. Shortly af-
ter its completion, probably about the LIST
proximo, the institution will be thrown
open to the public.
Superintendent Kouns, of North
Platte, arrived from the east in his special
car last evening and discussed funds
among the railroad boys who run" be-
tween this city and Sidney, Neb.
The bounty industry is evidently on the
decline. But very few installments of
gopher and coyote scalps are received at
the court house. The professional hunt
ers are probably enjoying their well
earned vacations.
The Seventeenth regiment band dates
back seventeen years and has been sta
toned in Dakota until the past year. 1t is
a dandy and is here from Cheyenne under
the direct charge of Col. w. L. Kuyken-
dali, of that city.-Denver News.
Architect ]. s. Matthews has drawn
plans for a neat residence which M. l..
HOLSTER proposes to erect upon the cor
ner of Twenty-irst and Evans streets at
once. The structure will be a handsome
one story frame building and will cost
81, 800.
Governor Moonlight yesterday received
a telegram from DR.. NJ. Mcfarland,
superintendent of the Jacksonville, ILL.,
insane asylum, stating that none of the
patients from Wyoming had been injured
during the progress OF the recent confiag
ration in that institution.
A Rawlins doctor, his name is j. w.
Osborne, and he is now mayor of that
city, and withal a veIy fine gentleman,
wears a pair of slippers manufactured
from the cuticle of Big Nosed George, a
notorious desperate who was lynched in
Carbon county about four years ago.
For the information of members of the
platform committee who are not familiar
with the subject it is explained that white
signals carried by an engine indicate that
the train is a special. while green flags by
day, lanterns.at night, say palmer than
words that the train bearing them is fol
W by another section.
Mining Location notices at Leader Office.